(1400 years in advance)

Genesis 37:1-2(a) “. . . Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock. . . .” [He is a shepherd.]

John 10:11, 14 “I am the good shepherd. . . .”

v. 2(b) “. . . Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.” [Joseph brings an evil report of them.]

John 7:7 “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.”

v. 3 “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. . . .” [Joseph’s father loved him.]

Matthew 17:5 “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. . . .”

John 3:35 “The Father loveth the Son. . . .”

5:20 “For the Father loveth the Son. . . .”

v. 4 “And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.” [His brethren hated him.]

John 15:24-25 “. . . now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. . . .without a cause.”

v. 7 “. . . your [eleven] sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.” [They bow down before him.]

Matthew 28:5-9 “And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they [(the eleven disciples)] came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”

Luke 24:33-52 “And they . . . found the eleven gathered together . . . And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them. . . . And they worshipped him. . . .”

(Genesis 42:6 “And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s [eleven] brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.”)

v. 8 “And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.”

Luke 19:12-14 “But his citizens hated him . . . saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.”

vs. 9-10 “. . . the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.” [That is; his father, mother, and eleven brothers shall fall down before him, as it were, in worship.]

Genesis 41:41-43 “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. . . . And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee. . . .”

Philippians 2:10 “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. . . .”

v. 11 “And his brethren envied him. . . .”

(See: Acts 7:9 “And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. . . .”)

Matthew 27:17-18 “For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.” (Also, Mark 15:10)

vs. 13-14 “And Israel said unto Joseph . . . I will send thee unto them. . . . So he sent him. . . .”

[Joseph was sent unto his brethren!]

Matthew 15:24 “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

John 17:18 “As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”

v. 15 “. . . and, behold, he was wandering in the field. . . .”

Matthew 13:36-38 “The field is the world. . . .”

v. 16 “And he said, I seek my brethren. . . .”

Psalm 69:21 “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”